Louis L. McAllister Photographs

Louis L. McAllister photographed people and places near Burlington, Vermont for 60 years. He was born in Columbus, Nebraska on October 16, 1876, the son of Julius S. McAllister (born 1841 in Lincoln, VT) and Rosette Gould (born in Vermont in 1851). Julius McAllister worked as a photographer and dentist in Washington D.C., Bristol, Vermont and Columbus, Nebraska. Around 1895, Julius, his third wife Amy, and their children left Nebraska for the Union Soldiers’ Colony in Fitzgerald, Georgia. By 1900, Julius and Amy were divorced, and Amy and her stepson Louis were working as photographers in Thomasville, Georgia. In 1907 Louis McAllister married Cora Shepard (born about 1872 in Vermont) in Holland, Michigan. By 1910, they were living in Queen City Park in South Burlington, Vermont, where Louis established a photography studio. The McAllisters moved to Burlington, and by 1919 they lived at 47 N. Winooski Avenue. They continued to occupy a summer cottage at Queen City Park, and were active in the Queen City Park Association, which held spiritualist camp meetings annually. McAllister conducted his photography business from home until his death in 1963. McAllister’s “trademark” was his panorama camera which made him familiar to all sorts of groups ranging from graduating classes to state police to summer camp groups. In addition he did print 8 x 10 photos, many of which document building construction and Burlington Street Department projects, as well as group and individual portraits. The L.L. McAllister Collection includes portraits, construction projects, buildings, businesses and events in the Burlington area covering the period ca. 1920-1960. The collection also includes photos of street, bridge, airport and sewer construction and repair, as well as group portraits of clubs, schools, etc. Revised April, 2010

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1 1945
Miniature of Houses - Unidentified (Rural)
Houses - Unidentified (Rural)
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    • Description: Farmhouse with small attached barn next to a paved road. An automobile is parked in the front yard just off the road. Trees are bare of leaves. There are mountains in the background. Landscape view of home of the man seen in mcalA16F01i34. He and his family seen in mcalA15F02i12
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    Miniature of Houses - Unidentified (Rural)
    Houses - Unidentified (Rural)
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      • Description: Farmhouse with small attached barn next to a paved road. An automobile is parked in the front yard just off the road. Trees are bare of leaves. There are mountains in the background. Home of the man seen in mcalA16F01i34
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      Miniature of Farms - Livestock
      Farms - Livestock
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        • Description: Undated farm scene photo with dairy cows in a pasture and farm buildings in background.
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        Miniature of Farms
        Farms
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          • Date Created: undated
          • Description: View across a farm with dairy barn, other farm buildings, and white farmhouse to mountains in the distance. There are two automobiles in the yard and laundry hung on a clothesline.
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          Miniature of Portraits - Family
          Portraits - Family
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            • Date Created: 1945
            • Description: 1945 outdoor photo of farm stand and (perhaps) its owner. Photo takes in the whole stand, which is filled with neatly arranged baskets of produce. Photo #2.
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            Miniature of Farms - Barns
            Farms - Barns
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              • Description: Undated photo of farm buildings as seen from a grassy field. Included are a barn with silo, a small shed (maybe a chicken coop) and what may be the farmhouse (seen to the far right).
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              Miniature of Farms
              Farms
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                • Description: Autumn scene of a farmhouse with small attached barn next to a paved road. An automobile is parked in the front yard just off the road. Trees are bare of leaves. There are mountains in the background.
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                Miniature of Farms
                Farms
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                  • Description: View of a farm with white farmhouse and barn and garden plot. A dirt road with utility poles and lines runs in front of the house.
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                  Miniature of Farms
                  Farms
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                    • Description: View of a farm across a meadow includes barn, farmhouse, and other farm buildings. A dirt road with utility poles and lines cuts between the farmhouse and the barn.
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                    Miniature of Farms
                    Farms
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                      • Description: View of a wooded hillside across a valley in which there are a house and a farm. There is excavating equipment and excavation is being done. In the foreground are piles of earth and the stumps of cut trees.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs